Taiwan Question

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After
Hong Kong
(1997) and
Macau
(1999), the government in Beijing also wants
Taiwan
to "return" to the motherland as soon as possible. In the view of Beijing, incorporation of the island into the PRC would solve the Taiwan Question (Taiwanwenti), and thus the question of sovereignty would be resolved at last and the sacred unity of the nation completed. For the Taiwanese government in Taipei, however, the…